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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 327 · permalink

Forest

1:03:45–1:03:50 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:471:03:47

Play from 1:03:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 179 · shots 836–836. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • tall man wearing a hat, light shirt, tie, and trousers, holding a knife visible
  • shorter man wearing a hat, dark shirt, and trousers with a belt visible
Seen happening
  • One man places his hand on the other man's shoulder. [frame:1]
Also said
“She's worth her weight in hog livers.” 63:48
Seen
knife, hats, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly humorous; themes: male camaraderie, rural vernacular, value of a spouse; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in hats and shirts stand outdoors near trees; one places a hand on the other's shoulder while speaking. The dialogue references pride in a wife and a comparison to hog livers.

“You'd be very proud of your wife.” 63:45 · “About two people.” 63:47 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Private Snuffy Smith (1942) at 1:03:47 (passage 1:03:45–1:03:50); US record: No renewal found

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